Cron: variables based on command output
I had a problem with a cron job, a not-so-annoying but daily-repeating one. It's like a drill boring your mind slowly. Every time I got an email with the failing report the drill bit made more internal damage.
Lazy summer
There were almost no workouts during July + August, and September is starting the same way. We're experiencing too much changes with the kids school and the inestable weather here, so my body is feeling dumb, as my mind.
Trick for the summer: the mifi router + 3g data sim
As all the summers, we're trying to move from here to there enjoying the weather, beach, camping and all that stuff you can only take advantage of in this season.
New monitor: Acer G276HLA
A great friend of mine adviced me about a bid during the Amazon Premium Day. We have been talking about monitors some time ago and he remembered I was searching a replacement for my 22" Benq.
Call date inside an alias
Stupidity of the day: calculate the date in an double quoted bash alias. It seems that, if you don't escape the date call, it's called at the time of the alias definition, so it's not the real behaviour I was looking for:
Upgrading Django to 1.8
As they said, having last version has several benefits: New features and improvements are added. Bugs are fixed. Older version of Django will eventually no longer receive security updates. Upgrading as each new Django release is available makes future upgrades less painful by keeping your code base up to date. Also it's even greater that 1.8 is a LTS (Long-term support), that means we will get bug fixes and security updates for a guaranteed period of time, typically 3+ years.
irssi: playing with multiline paste
It's not quite known that some of us are still using irc as main channel for projects. I have to admit that without irc wouldn't have been able to talk with many interesting people, even lead developers in great opensource projects. So I've much to thank to that 'oldie' protocol.
Casual fun with tests
Fun is not the word because I went to bed really annoyed last two days, but it's the only way I can handle this, having as much "fun" as I can.
Using mercurial a la darcs
Nowadays using a version control system is as basic as using an editor. I have to admit I'm a mercurial fanboy because it's clear, simple and written in python. In some other projects we're using darcs, similar to mercurial but with a different approach. As we've organized the darcs project, we must pull, create a patch with the new features, and send it to our QA department for review and bug hunting. If there are errors we must fix them and rewrite + resend the patch for a new review. Once the code is ok, the SYS department pushes the patch to staging (if there are more tests to be done) and finally to production enviroment.
Python, Zombie, forms, tables and tests
Sometimes you feel that the world is against you, sometimes it's a computer what makes your life miserable. This time was a cocktail of elements. Trying to test a simple form functionally from python-zombie was like a nightmare.